# Review and approve changes

> Inspect single proposals, grouped changes and plans, then check their recorded outcomes.

Review changes in the Assistant or actions requiring approval in personal and agent chats.

## Before you begin

You need owner or dashboard editor access to approve dashboard changes. Viewers have a read-only Assistant. Other chats follow their tool approval policies.

## Review one proposal

1. Open the action card to inspect its preview.
2. Check the target, connection, values and intended operation.
3. Select **Approve** to proceed or **Deny** to decline.
4. Check the recorded result before assuming the change succeeded.

For Workspace text writes, **Preview** shows the complete file; **Changes** compares it with the pre-approval version. Copy/move previews identify destinations. Email previews show recipients, subject, body and attachments.

Where supported, you can edit a tool proposal or choose **Always approve**. This changes future approval behavior for that tool.

## Review changes together

Ordinary changes from one Assistant step form a group: select proposals, confirm once, then check each result.

1. Open the grouped review.
2. Inspect each proposal.
3. Uncheck changes you want to skip or deletions you want to keep.
4. Select **Apply N changes** or **Delete N items**, using the count shown.
5. Read the final receipt for every item, including partial failures.

**Cancel** declines the unconfirmed group when available. Already-confirmed decisions remain read-only and still run. Counts cover prepared proposals only.

> **Watch out** — Confirmation is not execution. A group can still be waiting for other decisions or waiting to start. Check each result.

For failures, choose **Review incomplete actions**. The Assistant checks current state and proposes only necessary changes, without repeating successes or replaying deletions.

## Approve a plan

Plans combine ordered tool steps. Read-only plans run automatically; others request one decision covering the whole plan.

1. Open **Plan in N steps**.
2. Check each step's connection, target, read/write operation and proposed values.
3. Inspect dependencies and the maximum number of repetitions.
4. Select **Approve plan** to run the plan, or **Deny** to run nothing.

Plans cannot be edited or set to **Always approve**. Agent and workflow launches keep their own approval controls, separate from grouped ordinary changes.

Older proposals remain viewable in history but cannot be approved there.

## Related

- [Approval policies](/en/docs/concepts/approvals)
- [The Assistant](/en/docs/assistant)
- [Conversations, files and voice](/en/docs/assistant/conversations)